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Example sentences for: searing

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A piece cringes at the new trend of body modification--or "bod-mod"--in which people mutilate themselves by searing their skin and splitting their tongues.
But those falsetto timbres of his make a searing tone, even in a middle register, where tones are usually not searing, and the sound is an X-ray, which penetrates everywhere.
As his fiancee, Vera Farmiga is seen only briefly but makes a searing impression: She's fierce and legalistic, and she fixates on the bottom-line questions in a way that frees her from looking at the moral ones.
While this form of searing has lost the force it once had, the essence of all the new words of emphasis is physical.
No doubt you're still reeling from my searing confessional in the April issue of Esquire , in which I, David Brock, apologized for having lighted the mighty blaze now consuming the Clinton presidency.